"Pol" meaning in German

See Pol in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /poːl/ Audio: De-at-Pol.ogg , De-Pol.ogg
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos) via Latin polus. Etymology templates: {{der|de|grc|πόλος}} Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos), {{bor|de|la|polus}} Latin polus Head templates: {{de-noun|m,(e)s}} Pol m (strong, genitive Poles or Pols, plural Pole) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|m,(e)s}} Forms: Poles [genitive], Pols [genitive], Pole [plural], strong [table-tags], Pol [nominative, singular], Pole [definite, nominative, plural], Poles [genitive, singular], Pols [genitive, singular], Pole [definite, genitive, plural], Pol [dative, singular], Pole [dative, singular], Polen [dative, definite, plural], Pol [accusative, singular], Pole [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. (geography, astronomy) pole (point on a spherical body's surface intersected by its rotational axis) Tags: masculine, strong
    Sense id: en-Pol-de-noun-~b4iYN-z Categories (other): Astronomy, Geography Topics: astronomy, geography, natural-sciences
  2. (geography, astronomy) pole (point on a spherical body's surface intersected by its rotational axis)
    (figuratively) anchor point, center (person or topic around which everything revolves, which is stable and central to all happenings)
    Tags: figuratively, masculine, strong
    Sense id: en-Pol-de-noun-njCOHaUW Categories (other): Astronomy, Geography Topics: astronomy, geography, natural-sciences
  3. (especially physics) one of two points with opposite properties (especially magnetic or electric) Tags: especially, masculine, strong Derived forms: Gegenpol, Kältepol, Nordpol, polen, Polkappe, Polstelle, Ruhepol, Südpol, Wärmepol Related terms: polar, Monopol
    Sense id: en-Pol-de-noun-cYIbo0KW Categories (other): Physics, Pages with 7 entries, Pages with entries, German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 7 entries: 14 17 15 15 22 8 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 19 17 17 26 4 7 Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 28 30 43 Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "πόλος"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "polus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin polus",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos) via Latin polus.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Poles",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pols",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pole",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "de-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pol",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pole",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Poles",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pols",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pole",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pol",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pole",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Polen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pol",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pole",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m,(e)s"
      },
      "expansion": "Pol m (strong, genitive Poles or Pols, plural Pole)",
      "name": "de-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m,(e)s"
      },
      "name": "de-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "de",
          "name": "Astronomy",
          "orig": "de:Astronomy",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "de",
          "name": "Geography",
          "orig": "de:Geography",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              28,
              33
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              35,
              40
            ]
          ],
          "english": "On Mars, there are ice caps at the poles.",
          "text": "Auf dem Mars gibt es an den Polen Eiskappen.",
          "translation": "On Mars, there are ice caps at the poles.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "pole (point on a spherical body's surface intersected by its rotational axis)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Pol-de-noun-~b4iYN-z",
      "links": [
        [
          "geography",
          "geography"
        ],
        [
          "astronomy",
          "astronomy"
        ],
        [
          "pole",
          "pole"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geography, astronomy) pole (point on a spherical body's surface intersected by its rotational axis)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "strong"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "geography",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "de",
          "name": "Astronomy",
          "orig": "de:Astronomy",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "de",
          "name": "Geography",
          "orig": "de:Geography",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "pole (point on a spherical body's surface intersected by its rotational axis)",
        "anchor point, center (person or topic around which everything revolves, which is stable and central to all happenings)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Pol-de-noun-njCOHaUW",
      "links": [
        [
          "geography",
          "geography"
        ],
        [
          "astronomy",
          "astronomy"
        ],
        [
          "pole",
          "pole"
        ],
        [
          "anchor point",
          "anchor point"
        ],
        [
          "center",
          "center"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geography, astronomy) pole (point on a spherical body's surface intersected by its rotational axis)",
        "(figuratively) anchor point, center (person or topic around which everything revolves, which is stable and central to all happenings)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "masculine",
        "strong"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "geography",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "de",
          "name": "Physics",
          "orig": "de:Physics",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 17 15 15 22 8 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 7 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 19 17 17 26 4 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 30 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "German entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 42",
          "word": "Gegenpol"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 42",
          "word": "Kältepol"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 42",
          "word": "Nordpol"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 42",
          "word": "polen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 42",
          "word": "Polkappe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 42",
          "word": "Polstelle"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 42",
          "word": "Ruhepol"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 42",
          "word": "Südpol"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 42",
          "word": "Wärmepol"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "one of two points with opposite properties (especially magnetic or electric)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Pol-de-noun-cYIbo0KW",
      "links": [
        [
          "physics",
          "physics"
        ],
        [
          "point",
          "point"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(especially physics) one of two points with opposite properties (especially magnetic or electric)"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 42",
          "word": "polar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 42",
          "word": "Monopol"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "especially",
        "masculine",
        "strong"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/poːl/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-at-Pol.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6d/De-at-Pol.ogg/De-at-Pol.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/De-at-Pol.ogg"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-Pol.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a3/De-Pol.ogg/De-Pol.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/De-Pol.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Pol"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "German entries with incorrect language header",
    "German lemmas",
    "German masculine nouns",
    "German nouns",
    "German terms borrowed from Latin",
    "German terms derived from Ancient Greek",
    "German terms derived from Latin",
    "Pages with 7 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Gegenpol"
    },
    {
      "word": "Kältepol"
    },
    {
      "word": "Nordpol"
    },
    {
      "word": "polen"
    },
    {
      "word": "Polkappe"
    },
    {
      "word": "Polstelle"
    },
    {
      "word": "Ruhepol"
    },
    {
      "word": "Südpol"
    },
    {
      "word": "Wärmepol"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "πόλος"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "polus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin polus",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos) via Latin polus.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Poles",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pols",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pole",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "de-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pol",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pole",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Poles",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pols",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pole",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pol",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pole",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Polen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pol",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pole",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m,(e)s"
      },
      "expansion": "Pol m (strong, genitive Poles or Pols, plural Pole)",
      "name": "de-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m,(e)s"
      },
      "name": "de-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "polar"
    },
    {
      "word": "Monopol"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "German terms with usage examples",
        "de:Astronomy",
        "de:Geography"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              28,
              33
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              35,
              40
            ]
          ],
          "english": "On Mars, there are ice caps at the poles.",
          "text": "Auf dem Mars gibt es an den Polen Eiskappen.",
          "translation": "On Mars, there are ice caps at the poles.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "pole (point on a spherical body's surface intersected by its rotational axis)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "geography",
          "geography"
        ],
        [
          "astronomy",
          "astronomy"
        ],
        [
          "pole",
          "pole"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geography, astronomy) pole (point on a spherical body's surface intersected by its rotational axis)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "strong"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "geography",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "German terms with usage examples",
        "de:Astronomy",
        "de:Geography"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "pole (point on a spherical body's surface intersected by its rotational axis)",
        "anchor point, center (person or topic around which everything revolves, which is stable and central to all happenings)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "geography",
          "geography"
        ],
        [
          "astronomy",
          "astronomy"
        ],
        [
          "pole",
          "pole"
        ],
        [
          "anchor point",
          "anchor point"
        ],
        [
          "center",
          "center"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geography, astronomy) pole (point on a spherical body's surface intersected by its rotational axis)",
        "(figuratively) anchor point, center (person or topic around which everything revolves, which is stable and central to all happenings)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "masculine",
        "strong"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "geography",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "de:Physics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "one of two points with opposite properties (especially magnetic or electric)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "physics",
          "physics"
        ],
        [
          "point",
          "point"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(especially physics) one of two points with opposite properties (especially magnetic or electric)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "especially",
        "masculine",
        "strong"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/poːl/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-at-Pol.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6d/De-at-Pol.ogg/De-at-Pol.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/De-at-Pol.ogg"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-Pol.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a3/De-Pol.ogg/De-Pol.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/De-Pol.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Pol"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Pol meaning in German (4.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable German dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-03-03 using wiktextract (d146717 and 59dc20b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.